Franck: Rédemption

Composer: César Auguste Franck Artists: Gé Neutel (soprano), The Netherlands Radio Choir, Frans Müller (choir master), Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Jean Fournet conductor) Online purchase and streaming: More information: édemption/ With just a single modern recording in the catalogue, Franck’s hour-long fusion of oratorio form with symphonic poem counts as a notable rarity in his output, not so sprawling as the evening-long oratorio on the Beatitudes but still a dramatic canvas full of incident and contemplation well worth exploring by anyone familiar with the Symphony or the secular tone-poems such as Psyché and Le chausseur maudit.